What is the point of religion? What good is it? How does it help you? What do you want or need religion?

It is not that we need religion so much as it is that we need God. Religion is how He wants us to live. It helps us stay true to the past He wants us to live.

Religion is also how He wants us to worship .

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The point of religion is the fact that there is a God! If atheists are correct, then there is NO POINT to religion. Yet, if they are wrong and there is a God Who requires our worship and obedience than it is of dreadful importance to know that God and what He requires of you.

The Christian "religion" says yes there is a God ... He is infinite, eternal, unchangeable, all -wise, all powerful, HOLY, just, good and true, our God is love and He has so many other attribues. He exists eternally, One God in Three Persons: The Father, the Son and Holy Spirit - The Bible is His revelation! It tells us Who and What He is, what He does and what He requires, it tells us if we seek Him with all our heart we will find Him!

Yes, people have other concepts of God. Yet, if God is real, He is not realistic "everything to everybody" --- If Christians are correct about God, Muslims or Buddists would be incorrect, similarly vice-versa. So, it is important that a person make an effort to find the true God.

What is Good about it? Religion? Well, it is no good unless God is real and you find THAT REAL God!

If Christianity is true we have salvation in Jesus Christ --- it is very good because we have been saved from eternal torment and made fit for eternal life! Not only that but to put things short, I have found it "the Christian Life" here and now, to be the most exciting fulfilling life imaginable. I was not raised a Christian.

Comfort and forgiveness For me, the point of religion is twofold. It's the acknowledgement that there's more, something bigger, than me. That gives me comfort.

It's also a deep sense of relationship with what Christians call a Heavenly Father. Since my own father loves me yet is broken, emotionally, in many ways (we all are) to have a Perfect Father in God also offers me much comfort. I don't need religion.

I don't need a bunch of rules. But I have found that I do need relationship (with God) because I think it's human nature to want to fill up that hole in our hearts with all sorts of things: drugs, alcohol, food, sex, overspending, overworking, etc etc...when the hole I believe we all have in our heart is God-shaped, and put there in each of us at birth. I believe that's what that yearning for "more" in life is.

I'm not saying that since I've become a Christian (15 years, now, I was 32 when I made the decision) my life has been easy or perfect. In fact, it's become much, much harder because loving God has shown me my conscience. There are so many things I've done in the past that I truly had no conscience about, never accepted responsibility for.

And the beauty of God (in my life) has been that once I confess my wrong areas, my sins....I have a God who refuses to let me keep condemning myself. I have a God who says, "okay, Pursuetruth, now press on". Religion has freed me from my own demons, all those past mistakes that I used to beat myself up about ten times a day and now because I know that God loves me EVEN IF I'm not perfect...and that encourages me to love myself, and forgive myself, and forge a new and better life for myself and everyone around me.

I don't recommend religion. I heartily recommend a relationship with a God who loves you. I'm always tickled when I read in the Bible that God considers us "the apple of His Eye".

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It also has great notations at the bottom of each page which explains even more.

Religion can help us find answers to questions science is powerless to do The search for truth involves more than just the physical world where science can help. It involves questions such as What is the purpose of earth life? How can I achieve a fulfilling life?

What will happen after I die? Is there a God, and if so, why does he allow suffering? I've come to an understanding of the answers to these questions.

There are some videos at mormon.org that can help you understand them as well.

A personal perspective I don’t think it is at all possible to generalize about religion. For every assertion I make about religion in general, plenty of contrary examples could be found. It’s risky for me to assume that I know what you even mean by "religion".

So I hope you don’t mind if I approach this from a very subjective perspective, talking about the role religion plays in my own life, and understanding that it won’t apply to all religions or all practitioners. I’ve been practicing Buddhism for most of my adult life, but was raised by a fervently Christian mother, so I have seen first-hand two very different ways of approaching religion. The religion of my childhood was about assuring a bright future for myself, cheating what seemed, empirically at least, to be the inevitable fate of all our kind.

This form of religion, then, functioned as a sort of lifeboat that promised rescue from an otherwise hopeless situation. You were either in the boat or out of it, and the price of admission was the unconditional acceptance of a certain body of beliefs and a code of conduct. Although you thus relinquished a good measure of your own freedom of critical thought, you were armed with a somewhat self-consistent set of answers to otherwise thorny cosmological, moral and philosophical questions.

There were plenty of auxiliary social benefits that went along with these theological precepts: a sense of belonging to a community, instant friends, the security of mutual support. But with my adulthood came an increasing reluctance to ignore the growing doubts. At some very precise point in my early twenties, I recognized that the elaborate structure of faith that had been the template for my life up to that point was utterly gone, leaving not the slightest trace.

I half-way expected to be devastated by this realization; it meant, after all, that my social world had also suddenly collapsed and that I was no longer in the "lifeboat". But instead of despair, I felt a wonderful exhilaration: I was now free to question for the first time in my life. Having all of those answers stripped away felt like the best thing that had ever happened to me.

Like someone who had gained the sense of sight for the first time, I discovered the beauty of inquiry, of pure wondering (such a perfect word). I recognized right away that I could never be satisfied with some other set of ready-made answers to replace the ones I had just shed. I wasn't sure I even wanted answers at all; the question itself seemed to have an enlivening power.

I began reading, again looking not for answers so much as looking at how others went about their own journeys of inquiry. It was in the course of all this reading that I became aware that Buddhism was very unlike most other religions in that it didn't offer a set of answers at all. Buddhism is all about inquiry; the question itself is at the core of the practice.

What it offers is a structured method for fostering one's own inquiry. No predigested conclusions are put forward. I knew that this was exactly the kind of structure my own inquiry needed.

What I had found early on in my own process of questioning is that it is far too easy to become enamored of a bright and shiny idea, whether my own or someone else's. It's prettiness is so easily confused with truth that one can feel that one has arrived at some stopping place, a destination, and be reluctant to move on. These are the covered pits that dot the inquirer's path.

Falling into them is inevitable, but it's kind of comfy down there; if you don't climb out and move on, you can die a slow spiritual death of inertia (in Zen Buddhism, this is a widely recognized danger, sometimes called the "cave of demons"). One value of being in a community who's sole purpose is to support inquiry is that whenever the practitioner feels that s/he has arrived at some kind of "answer", s/he is urged by others who have had similar experiences to reexamine the matter even more carefully. Under this kind of careful scrutiny, even our most carefully thought out answers tend to wither and evaporate, and the inquiry moves on.

There are people who are disinclined to classify Zen as a religion at all because it lacks two features that we usually associate with religion: a body of doctrine and a god. Yet it does have other features of a religion: a priesthood, liturgy, devotional practices, a moral code. These may seem like unnecessary appendages, distractions even, to a practice of disciplined inquiry, and they can feel that way in the beginning.

Zen is highly pragmatic; nothing is done simply because some ultimate authority decreed that it was to be "thus". The ceremonial features and iconography that have survived the centuries of Zen practice are there because they function. That function often becomes apparent to the practitioner only after years of practice.

This typically comes as a result of finally understanding that deep inquiry is more a labor of intuition, of the "heart", than of the intellect. It's in that context that ceremony and devotion find their place. The "payoff" of Buddhist practice hardly sounds like winning the lottery; all that's promised is a gradual (but sometimes sudden) shedding of the delusions that make us suffer.

How significant a transformation that is can only be recognized when one begins to see, through years of work, how those delusions permeate and poison our entire outlook. Could I have managed to feel my way along in my voyage of inquiry without ever connecting with this structured religion? Theoretically, sure.

But seeing in retrospect how many wrong turns I've made along the way, and knowing that the journey is far from over, I'm very glad for the support.

Forgiveness. Of course that other thingy--Salvation--has a lot to do with it. Yep, that's the short, sweet, and to the point answer.

BYE! Sources: experience .

It is not that we need religion so much as it is that we need God. Religion is how He wants us to live. It helps us stay true to the past He wants us to live.

Religion is also how He wants us to worship Him.

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